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Ital Christian Dem party sec gen Fanfani rejects proposal Italy join nuclear-free zone; Ital Communist party backs Ital role
AFL unit expels Teamsters
again urges more bldg
Mayor weighs exec order giving unions many rights held by unions in private indus, A H Raskin rept; order would improve machinery to adjust disputes; would embody program submitted by Comr Felix, '57; proposals include guaranteeing workers right to join unions of choice, unions winning majority to get exclusive bargaining rights, minority groups protected; other terms
Govt sets $209 fee for passport to Eur and right to cross Polish frontier; reaction bitter; 250,000 went abroad, Jan-Sept '57; '58 travel seen cut sharply
1958Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
Francisco "Paco" Buyo Sánchez is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1958Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player (died 2016)[†]
Juan Pedro de Miguel Rubio was a Spanish handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
1958Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1880)[†]
Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
1958Edna Purviance, American actress (born 1895)[†]
Olga Edna Purviance was an American actress of the silent film era. She was the leading lady in many of Charlie Chaplin's early films and in a span of eight years, she appeared in over 30 films with him.
1958The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.[†]
The Army of Liberation was an organization of various loosely united militias fighting for the independence of Morocco from the French-Spanish protectorate.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]